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Portico Quartet

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Discography
Knee Deep In The North Sea
(Official release 5 Nov. 2007) Order the CD online by clicking here
Available as high quality MP3 download here


Cover of Jazz UK magazine in December 2007 (read the full feature here)


Number One Jazz, folk & world album of the year 2007. Time Out

Selected by John Fordham (Guardian) as the ones to watch for in 2008 (Jazzwise, Dec 2007)

Portico Quartet are four young musicians based in London. Nick Mulvey, Duncan Bellamy, Jack Wyllie and Milo Fitzpatrick met in 2005 as they began studying in London.

Comprised of soprano Saxophone (Wyllie), double bass (Fitzpatrick), Hang and percussion (Mulvey), and drums and Hang (Bellamy), their sound is truly unique, exciting and fresh.

Forging contemporary jazz with modern classical tendencies (think Steve Reich and Philip Glass) along with many other genres, they have created an inimitable sound that has been compared to the work of Ben Allison, Esbjorn Svennson Trio and The Cinematic Orchestra amongst many others.

Portico Quartet has recently recorded a session broadcast on Gilles Peterson's Radio 1 Worldwide show, Radio 4 Front Row and a live number for Robert Elms' feature on the 2007 London Jazz Festival on Radio London.

Interview from Londonist talking about their favourite record shop and so on here

Other nice interviews include one for Big Chill, where they are playing at this year's festival. Click here.
Review from Independent.
Chris Parker review
Live review from the Guardian here

Check out Portico Quartet videos here.

Film by Sian Lattimer

For hi res photos contact Fiona